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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-29
RELIGIOUS.
Interesting Facts and Figures. for Stu
dents Of the Scriptures.

The Ap0crypha has verses, 7OS1.
The Apocrypha has chapters, 1873.
The books of the Old Testament, 80.
The Apocrypha has words, 1852, 1856.
Verses in the Old Testament, 3,241.
The books in the New Testament, q.
Verses in the New Testament, 1859.
Words in the Old Testament, 592, 430.
Words in the New Testament 1S1 1858
The chapters in the Old Testament,
929.
r Letters in the New Testament, $685.
$50.
Letters in the Old Testament, $685.
100.
The chapters in the New Testament,
EGO.
The word "Jehovah" occurS 6S65
times.
The middle book OF the Old Test.-
ment is Proverbs.
The middle chapter of The Old Tesla
ment is Job, 90.
The middle verse of the New Tesla.
ment is Acts, xvii, IL.
The shortest verse i'll tn New Tesla
ment is John, xi, 35.
Chapter 10 of II. Kings and chap
ter 81 of Isaiah are alike.
The longest verse in the Old Tesla
ment is Esther, viii, 8.
The middle book of the New Tesla
ment is II. Thessalonians.
The word 'sand" occurs in the New
Testament GOA times.
The middle chapter and shortes, in
the Bible is Psalm, cxvii.
The word "and" occurs in tho O!d
Testament &c, 543 times.
The shortest verse OF the Old Tesla
ment is /. Chronicles, i, %.
The middle verse of the Old Test,-
ment is II. Chronicles, XXi,17.
The middle chapters of tho New les
lament are Romans, xiii, and xiv.
Verse 81, chapter Of Ezra, has all
the letters of the alphabet except a."
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-29

statistics that, while ysars ego, in this
there was SGT apart AZ, OO0, 600
of acres Of land for school purposes,
there are now In New England 191 600
people who can neither read nor write,
and in the State Of Pennsylvania 222,-
600 who can neither read nor write,
and in the State Of New York 241 900
who can ueither read nor write, while
in the United States there are nearly
5000, 900 who can neither read nor
write. Statistics enough to stagger and
confound any man who loves his God
and his country.
Now, in view of this fact, 1 am in
favor of compulsory education. When
parents are 80 bestial as to neglect this
duty to the child, say the law, with
a strong hand, at the same time with
a gentle hand, ought TO lead these lit
tie ones into the light of intelligence
and good MORALS"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-29
DeNniteness In knowledge.

The memory will only be content
when there il thar accuracy which
gives absolute confidence. Suspicion
of inaccuracy is the most vicious ele-
ment in memory. 1t is more satisfact-
ory not to recall q thing than to recall
it in such a way as not to know what
we have recalled-whether the recol-
lection is reliable, where the memory
OF fact shades into fancy. 1t requires
the best mental activity, the closest
observation, the clearest thought, the
sharpest discrimination, the cleanest
classification, to give knowledge that
defiuiteness which is indispensable TO
reliability in memory and accuracy in
recoilection.-Jour7aa of Education.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-29
A Church With Lady Members Only.
TToronto, ILL.,, Special. |

Toronto, ILL.,, Special
The Presbytery of Bloomington hes
a small.siZed elephant Oh its hands.
There is church at Sidney, this coun-
ty, composed entirely of women. They
raised the money t. build n neat little
chapel and dedicated it practically free
from debt. But there were no male
members 10 hold the Offices, and SO no
officers have been chosen. a commit
tee recently appointed by the Presby-
terry is now eudeavoring to complete
the organization by electing elders.
The question at issue appears TO be
whether they can hustle up some male
members or will have 10 disregard all
custom and precedent by letting the
women take the place they have so
abundantly earned.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-29
EDUCATIONAL.
Train to Read in tho Schools.
TBoston Courier.l

[Boston Courier.l
importance of good writing; OF the
influence upon the public of literature
and the cardinal need of encouraging
q high grade. It does not seem to oc-
cur to people that if preaching is to be
done 1t would be we'll to devote some
stress to the advocation of good read
ing as we'll as of good writing. There
ia much more of the latter than the
former. There is no lack of good
books, but the unhappy fact is that
there is decidedly lack of people who
know how to read them.
We are as a race and as q nation of
the nervous habit of mind and body
which prevents our doing properly
whatever demands defiberatiOn and
care. We read as we do everything
else, hastily, feverishly and superb
cially. If an author has written care
fully, if he has charged every line with
meaning, II his choice of words has
been deliberate and subtitle, all these
fine distinctions are lost upon the hasty
reader. He skins hastily over the
surface and loses Ealf the force the au-
thor has carefully and patiently
wrought into the web OF his work. He
even complains, often enough, that
the author has failed to put into his
writing the meaning which escapes
him simply because of his inefficient
reading.
1t lisa pity that instead of some of
the useless and multitudinous rubbish
with which our public schools force
children to struggle painfully in the
shape of superficial and assimilating
scattering of all sorts Of things, place
could not be found in the instruction
of youth for the cultivation Of the
habit of careful and intelligent read
ing. If this could be once established
it would DO infinitely more valuable
than the sort Of stuff with which their
minds are at present concerned.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-29
Compulsory School Attendance.

We must get ready to face this ques-
tion, Compulsory School Attendance.
Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage in recent
sermon, said:
81 say that we must depend upon
the school for great deal of correcting
influences. A community can no more
midst than 1t can afford to have un-
Gagged hyenas. Ignorance Is the mother
of hydra-headed crime. Thirty.one
per cent of all the criminals of New
York State can neither read nor write.
Intellectual darkness is generally the
precursor OF moral darkness.
know there are educated outlaws,
men who through their sharpness Of
intellect, are made more dangerous.
They use their fine penmsnship in
siguing other peoples names, and their
science in ingenious burglaries, and
their fine manners in adroit libertinism.
They go their round of sin with well
cut apparel, and dangling jewelry, and
watches of eighteen carats and kid
gloves. They are refined, educated,
magnificent villains. But that is the
exception. 1t is generally the case
that the criminal classes are as ignorant
as they are wicked. For proof of what
I say, 60 into the prisons and the pen
itentiaries, and look upon the men and
women incarcerated. The dishonesty
in the eye, the low passion in the lip
are not more conspicuous than the ig-
norance 10 the forehead. The ignorant
classes are always the dangerous classes.
Demagogues marshall them. They are
helm!ess, and are driven before the
gale.
1t is high time that all city and
State authority, as we'll as the Federal
Government, appreciate the awful
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-29
Wholesale Drugs.

Browns Iron Bitters. .F
Swift's Specific, 8. g. s. p
Armistead's Ague Tonic.
Acid Iron Earth.
Fellows Hypophosphates.
Blood Balm, B. b. b.
Kinch.
OVENS Sore Wash.
CarbOlic Salve.
Asnica Liniment.
German Syrup.
Pierce's Goods.
Bulls Goods. t.
Platt's Chlorides. =
Tichenor's Antisceptic.
Simmons Liver Medicine.
Simmons Liver Regulator.
Cuiicura Goods.
Royal Glue.
Ayers Goods.
AT CALDERWOOD g. Co.'S.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-29
For tho Ladies.

Fine perfumery, Lubin's Extracts,
Colgate's Extracts, Wrighrs Extracts,
Lazell's Bulk Extracts, Imported Co.
logne, Homemade Cologne, Lily
White, Toilet Powders, all sorts. Fine
Toilet Soaps; fine Tooth Brushes,
Combs, Hair Brushes, Cloth Brushes,
etc.
AT CALDERwOpD & Cos
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-29
Il RUDE WAKENING.
She had face surprising fair;
And men admired her beauty rare
And II

she naO q 16C0 surprising ldu
And men admired her beauty rare
AndIf
Well, adored her, nothing less;
To be with her was happiness
Three ply.
OF course size knew she was not blind;
She saw my plight, and she was kind
And good;
For when I asked her if she'd wed
A chap like me, she b1ushed and said
She would.
Oh, then the summer quickly flow
Till the time came to say adieu
One night.
She promised when went away
That every single day
She'd write.
But her first letter drove me mad
Almost, with wild despair, for sad
To toll;
This lovely maid, for whom I yearned
So longingly, had never learned
10 spell.
Journal Of Education.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-09
Trade Schools.

AT recent meeting of the Carriage
builders National Association, held in
Washington, a report was made upon
the school in New York for the train
ing of carriage draughtsmen and me-
chanics which was very encouraging.
This school is intended to supply the
place of the old-style apprenticeship.
1t has evening classes and correspond
ing classes, and during the past season
twenty pupils were enrolled in the
former and one hundred forty in the
latter. The results of the teaching is
shown in the fact that twenty-five of
the graduates have been promoted
to positions as foremen, draughtsmen
or uperintendents, or have become
proprietors or members of firms en-
gagged in carriage-building. This trade
school differs from some others in that
it directs all its instruction to the one
trade contemplated.
In Germany there are several trade
schools. They are mainly intended for
boys who would otherwise idle away
their time after the closing of the regu-
lar schools at 2: 30 p. NJ. In summer,
at some schools, the boys are trained
Systematically in gardening; at other
times, in the making of baskets,
brushes, brooms and plain carpeting.
Type-setting and book-binding are also
taught, as well as other mechanical
trades. The girls are taught knitting
and sewing in the same systematic
manner. Each boy and girl receives a
small remuneration for their work when
faithfully performed, which is not paid
directly to them, but is put into saw
ings bank to their credit. The German
government appreciates the benefit to
the country of preparing its youth to
make living by patient, continuous
and remunerative manual labor, and it
therefore encourages industrial training.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-09
A Possible Failure.

The Panama canal, in spite of the
fresh support it gets occasionally in
Europe, seems destined to be con-
tinual source of anxiety to its pro-
jectors. According to report made
last spring, the total expenditures up
to March LIST, 1887, amounted to 1874, :
0S4, 729. There had been excavated
about 30,000,000 cubic yards to show
for this, and nearly 70,000,000 yards
remained to be eXcavated. The es-
timated total cost of the work done and
yet to be done was not less than $780,
000, 900. There was surplus of only
$4,000 900 available for the work, and
therefore upwards of 1926 900, 900 were
needed to complete it. Lieutenant
Rogers of the United States navy, who
inspected the canal, stated that although
more than 10000 laborers were en-
ployed on the work, at the present rate
of excavation it would require ten years
to complete it. The credit of the COM
pany is not good, though DE Lesseps
has made a courageous fight to sustain
the enterprise. 1t is now given out
that collapse for the canal, bankruptcy
for thousands of small holders and the
perils of great financial CONFUSION
for France must come unless the
French government assumes the con-
troll and expense of the project. 1t is
said that the French ministry hesitate
to take up the enterprise, though g
strong pressure has been brought tc
bear upon them by the anxious stock
holders. Even if they are successful
in raising the funds in this way to carry
on the work, it is predicted by compe
tent engineers that a dozen years a
least will be required for its succe ssfu
completion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-09
The New Hampshire Rail.
road Situation.

Entirely outside the owners and partisans
of the Concord railroad there is a large body
of thoughtful citizens who have viewed with
alarm the approaching absorption of the
central New Hampshire system of roads
extending from Boston to Vermont and the
West, by corporation whose natural lines
of road only extend from Boston through
Among these citizens are many who would
be glad TO have the Boston & Lowell operate
the Northern & Montreal, knowing that
during the last two years the Lowell has
given lower fares and freights and better
facilities than the public ever had before
which they earnestly desire to have con-
tinued. The governor says that when
the law of 1888 was passed it was not sup
posed that the outcome would be a general
consolidation. He has prevented all
ninety-nne-year leases of railroads Except
rence) but he has not repealed the act of
1888. Under that act the Northern railroad
can be operated by the Boston < Maine
under short lease or business arrangement,
or it may unite and consolidate with the
Boston * Maine and become one corporation
with it, and no existing power can prevent it,.
The Concord railroad cannot lease the
Montreal for ninety-nine years, but both
these roads can unite and make one corpora
ton. The Boston X Maine and the Boston
& Lowell can unite and form one company,
and then can unite with themselves every
railroad in the state of New Hampshire.
The Concord and Montreal roads can, if
they choose, unite with the Boston < Maine
and Boston & Lowell combination. To
effectually prevent the absorption which
the governor fears there must be affirmative
legislation repeating or essentially modify
ing the law of 1888 Concord Monitor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-09

of Utah, which was sustained in this
court in the case of Hept Us. Territory
of Utah; third, that it does not appear
in the record that upon the evidence
the trial court should have declared the
juror Sanford incompetent; fourth, that
the objection to the admission of the
Johann Most letter and the cross-ex-
animation of Spies, which counsel for
the prisoners maintained virtually COM
PEELED them to testify against them
selves, were not objected to in the trial
court, and that therefore no foundation
was laid for the exercise of this courts
Jurisdiction; and, fifth, that the ques-
tons raised by General Butler in the
cases of Spies and Fielden, upon the
basis of their foreign nationality, were
neither raised nor decided in the state
courts, and therefore cannot be con-
sidered here. The writ of error prayed
for must consequently be denied.
This decision removes the last hope
VI inc dIdICulSlS lOl IL SJdJ vi luclI
doom, unless the governor of Illinois
interferes, and this is not expected.
All of the condemned men have now
written the governor, asking for Glenn
ency. 1t may be, as has been pre-
dicted, that the hanging of these men
will make heroes of them, in the esti-
nation of their fanatical associates,
but the moral effect of their execution
will be of great service to society To
spare these murderers, after they have
had fair trial and been justly con-
victed, would be to encourage further
outbreaks of lawlessness by the an
archists. There is no question what
ever as to the guilt of these men, and
the grounds of their appeal for the in
tervention of the United States su-
preme court were very slight. Never
theless, it is better to have all things
clearly established in the case; and the
Judgment which condemned the an
archists now stands all the stronger in
its moral effects by the decision of the
federal supreme court
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-09

izing the Boston & Maine to lease the
Northern railroad. The governor says
that the same reasons which influenced
him in vetoing the Hazen bill apply
with equal force to the parts that are
contended by the parties interested.
Otherwise all the provisions of the
Hazen bill might become laws at this
session by re-enacting them one by one,
and thus the objections to the whole
bill be evaded and rendered of no eff
feet. His further objections are that
the Boston q Maine or Boston & Low
ell have no practical physical con-
nection with the Northern, both being
separated therefrom by the Concord
road, in which the state has large in
terest. He intimates that the lease of
the Northern to the Boston ~ Maine
would endanger the pecuniary interest
of the state in the Concord road, and
that the consolidation of the roads under
management centralized in another
state, ana the maj absorption OF lne
whole Concord system in this way, is
not contamination to be desired or
that would be of ultimate benefit to the
state. The Boston e. Maine majority
in the house resorted to the question
able expedient of declaring the gov
ernor's veto of the Hazen bill unconsti-
tutional and authorizing the transmits
sion of the bill to the secretary of state
to be published with the other new laws.
1t is stated that the secretary will sub
NIT the question to the supreme court,
and that will probably end the matter.
The legislature adjourned on Saturday,
having been in session one hundred
fifty-eight days-the longest legislative
session in the history of the state.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-09
Senator Morrill,.

The venerable figure and statesman-like
head of Senator Justin S. Morrill, of Yer
mont have been observed in the Fifth Ave-
nue. Hotel corridors for several days. He
stopped over here for rest and quiet recrea-
ton while on his way to Washington. Sem
ator Morrill, broke down in Washington
under the heat and malarious atmosphere
of the summer and went home ill, but has
recovered his health and strength in his ma
tive hills. He appears stronger than in
years and says that he feels stronger Sem
ator Morrill, has been one of the reserved,
undemonstrative, unpretentious members
of the senate, whose labors have left deep
impressions on the statute-books without
any parade or loud acclaim. The tariff laws
were largely shaped by his guiding hand
and mind, and the famous Morrill, tariff
bore his name in popular phrasing. At
home he has wealth of esteem and love
from his friends and neighbors such as few
public men receive. His personal appear
ance is striking. He is more than six feet
tall, but his shoulders stoop so as to take
away the appearance of great height, Above
his massive shoulders is set a square and
rugged face, white almost as marble, with
little gray tufts of side whiskers by either
ear. His gray hair clusters in half-broken
curls around massive head. His resem-
blance to pictures of the late Charles Sum
ner is so close that it is frequently mem
toned. Senator Morrill,, like other public
men in Washington who are republicans,
has a keen sense of the improper methods
by which southern domination of national
politics is secured Senator Allison of Iowa
said not long ago TO gentleman with whom
he was discussing politics: In the state
of Georgia an aggregate 2I,OOO votes elected
ten congressman. That single fact COM
prses the whole southern question" This
remark was quote TO Senator Morrill, while
discussing the returns from the Baltimore
elections. 1t would SEEM" said he, as
though the methods that prevail through
the South in the matter of the ballot were
equally controlling in Baltimore, If the
independents were right in their analysis of
the names on the poll lists, thousands of
which were still left on to which they made
objections, there were enough fraudulent
votes cast to have changed the result of the
election. The question of fair and honest
elections has never been unimportant, but
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-09
No Hope for the Anarchists.

The decision of the United States
supreme court upon motion for a
writ of error in the case of the Chicago
anarchists, sentenced to be hanged
November 18th, was announced by the
chief-justice last week Wednesday. In
brief, the court holds First, that the
first ten amendments to the Consttu-
ton are limitations upon federal, and
not upon state, action; second, that the
jury law of Illinois is, upon its face,
valid and constitutional, and that it is
similar in its provisions to the statute
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-09

WE do not find it convenient to de-
lay the publication of the WATCHMAN
this week in order to get some returns
of yesterdays elections. We are quite
confident that, with the possible excep-
ton of Maryland and Virginia, the re-
publicans have been generally sue
cessful
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-09

GOVERNOR SAWYER of New Hamp-
shire astonished the natives" again
last week by vetoing the bill author
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-09

these things will make it grow in prom
inence. "-Ne,C York Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-09

HepHbiicdnS.
G.. l.. CHAFFEE,
CHARLES S. MARTIN
CHAUNCEY STANLEY
j. S. TOWER,
A. j. MARSH,
w. c. HENRY,
A. CUsHMAN,
CHARLES MORGAN,
G. G.. HUBBARD,
Ct. w. ANGEL.
JOHN w. CHAFFEE,
w. II. CAMPBELL,
TRUE b. MARTIN,
FRED 7. MARTIN,
w. ID. HUNTINGTON
X. II. GooDNo,
f. II. KEZER,
WIN. NJ HUNTINGTON
o. G.. MARTIN,
n. c. b. HAvILAND,
JOHN w. CAMPBELL
w. w. WILLIAMS,
W. a. GooDNo.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-09-14
SEPTEMBER CROP REPORT.
The Department OF Agriculture's Esti-
mate ON Wheat, Corn, Etc.

The Department OF Agriculture's Esti-
mate ON Wheat, Corn, Etc.
WASHINGTON CITY, Sept 13.-The stats
IDEAL report Of the department Of agriculture
for September, made public Saturday morn
ing, says the average condition of winter and
spring wheat when harvested Is 80, against
SIS last year and "a In 1855. In the spring
wheat region Dakota returns SO, small gain;
Minnesota and Wisconsin, 70; Iowa, II, and
Nebraska 76, q slight reduction from last
month. The increase Of acreage will make
the difference still less between the present
crop and that of 1885, I'll.
The average for rye is SAP; that of oats,
SS4, against $50 last month, showing slight
decline The average for barley is 81, against
3D. last month. A reduction in buckwheat
has occurred from 80 last month to SO.
There L. q further loss in condition Of
maize from so 5 to 72S per cent, four points
lower than last years crop in September.
The memorable crop failure of 1881 was in
dicated by 60 In September and 80 in Octo-
Der, some Improvement having resulted from
more favorable conditions. The depreciation
Is nearly all in the west. The states OF the
Atlantic coast and those of the gulf, report
larger crops than those of last year, already
beyond the reach of disaster. In the
seven corn surplus states the average of last
month was "a, now e. The figures are:
Ohio, 6S; Indiana, 6i; Illinois, 81; Iowa, IS;
Missouri, 81; Kansas, ~; Nebraska, "a. Tho
average of New York and Pennsylvania is
%; of Georgia, 81; Of Texas SS; of Ten
nessee, so, and Of Kentucky, CO.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-09-14
A.other Biz p.i,w.y De.i.

Bos1oN, Sept 12-The Advertiser pub
lishes' the details OF q big railroad deal which
has BEEN maturing for some months. The
Nsw Work, New Haven & Hartford, or "Con-
solidated," and the Boston & Albany rail-
reads have agreed upon consolidation ofin-
terests that will secure to them the bulk of
the passenger business between New York
and Boston, absorbing between them the
New England, Norwich & Worcester line,
giving them both q boat via Norwich and an
all rail line via Springfield. The ownership
Of the consolidated and the Boston u Albany
roads Is substantially the Same and together
it controls majority Of the New York &
New England stock. The consolidated is to
complste its -four tracks to- New Haven.
straigbten all curves and modify the grades,
the running time between New
York and New Haven thirty minutes